--- title: "Which Teams Really Have the Best Fans in Sports?" url: https://sportsnstats.com/ description: "Sports analysis by Evan on football, basketball and baseball: college football returning starters, coaching salaries, NBA draft busts and schedule rest." published: 2013-03-02 updated: 2012-07-20 --- # Which Teams Really Have the Best Fans in Sports? Published 2013-03-02 ยท Updated 2012-07-20 March 2, 2013by Evanin [Series](https://sportsnstats.com/category/series/) Sports fans are some of the most passionate people on the planet. You live and die by each game, minute, and second. As you know, not every team can have the best fans, so in this series we attempt to actually prove which teams do. [Continue reading this post](https://sportsnstats.com/best-team-fans/) ## Earlier posts ### [2012-13 NBA Schedule with Days of Rest](https://sportsnstats.com/nba-schedule-days-rest/) November 17, 2012by Evanin [Basketball](https://sportsnstats.com/category/basketball/) The 2012-13 NBA schedule laid out with days of rest for each team, home and away. Every game of the year is grouped into rest categories, from back-to-backs through five days off. Tagsnbaschedule ### [College Football Returning Starters Part III: The Impact Quarterback](https://sportsnstats.com/returning-starters-quarterback/) September 16, 2012by Evanin [Football](https://sportsnstats.com/category/football/) Part III turns to the impact of returning starting quarterbacks. Neither raw returning starters nor experience predicted success in the first two parts, so the question is whether the one position everybody watches behaves differently. Tagscollege footballquarterbacksreturning starters ### [College Football Returning Starters Part II: A Deeper Look](https://sportsnstats.com/returning-starters-experience/) August 13, 2012by Evanin [Football](https://sportsnstats.com/category/football/) Part I concluded that the total number of returning starters had many flaws as a predictor. Part II weights those starters by experience, because a returning senior and a returning freshman plainly do not count the same. Tagscollege footballreturning starters ### [Do Returning Starters In College Football Matter?](https://sportsnstats.com/college-football-returning-starters/) August 9, 2012by Evanin [Football](https://sportsnstats.com/category/football/) Returning starters get quoted every preseason as though the count alone forecasts the year ahead. Part I of the series tests whether the number of returning starters has any predictive power on next season's results. Tagscollege footballreturning starters ### [College Football Coaches Salaries: You Get What You Pay For?](https://sportsnstats.com/college-football-coaches-salaries/) August 6, 2012by Evanin [Football](https://sportsnstats.com/category/football/) In college athletics, football is king, and the head coach is the most important hire an athletic director makes. This piece lines up what schools pay their staffs against what those staffs actually deliver on the field. Tagscoachingcollege footballmoney ### [NBA Draft: Do International Players Bust More Than College Players?](https://sportsnstats.com/nba-draft-euro-bust/) July 20, 2012by Evanin [Basketball](https://sportsnstats.com/category/basketball/) Pavel Podkolzin. Mouhamed Sene. Oleksiy Pecherov. The names that stick are the ones that did not work out, which is exactly why the reputation needs testing against the whole draft record rather than the memorable failures. 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